Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials have identified the man who was shot by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper as 32-year-old Carlos Javier Perez Alonso.

The trooper shot Perez Alonso after he carjacked a Sebastian resident Kerrie Johnson at a Hess gas station on Okeechobee Road in Fort Pierce at about 3 p.m., running over her leg in the process, authorities said.

Perez Alonso then fled to Interstate 95, where Fort Pierce police chased him as he sped north, police said. After crossing into Indian River County, he pulled into the median and ran off on foot.

It was then that the trooper shot him in the stomach area, said Richard Piccininni, lead agent in charge of the FDLE field office in Fort Pierce.

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